Tie holder construction



Oct. 29, 1940. A w LINDQUIST 2,219,960

TIE HOLDER CONSTRUCTION Filed Dec. 21, 1938 20 Z2 23/ 24 I zv 34 35 v mvEuTgRgd .10 L/ y BY g M ATTORN EY Patented Oct. 29, 1940 UNITED.

I 2,219,960 TIE-HoLDnnco s'rnUc'rroN Albert Lindquisflidgewood, R. 1., assignor to Freeman Danghaday Company, a corporation of Application December-'21, 1938, Serial No. 247,015 r I My present invention relates to -the jewelry art, and has particular reference to a1 ovelconstruc tion for a tie holder. i It is the principal object of my invention to pro vide a tie holder construction having aminimum number of complicated working parts'L f It is a further object of my invention topiovide a tie holder construction with holding'eleme'nts having a wide bearing for the tie parts. i

It is a further object of my invention to'provide a construction which is readily suitable for manufacture from stamped flat sheet stock'and which is extremely easy to assemble.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a tie holder with resilient holding members which are readily slidable on andbif a shirt and tie.

With the above and other objects and advan tageous features in view, my invention consists of a novel arrangement of parts more' fully disclosed in the detailed description following, in conjunc tion with the accompanying drawing, and more specifically defined in the claims appended thereto.

In the drawing: Fig. 1 is a plan view of a tie holder in use on a tie;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a tie holder embodying my invention;

Fig. 3 is a rear View thereof; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the pressure plate; Fig. 5 is an enlarged rear view thereof; Fig. 6 is a section taken along line 66 on Fig.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a modified form of tie holder;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged rear view thereof; Fig. 9 is an enlarged elevation, partly in section,

of the pressure plate of the modified form shown in Fig. '7; and

Fig. 10 is an enlarged rear view thereof.

It has been found desirable to provide a tie holder having an ornamental front portion and a rear portion which is resiliently urged towards the front portion, with a pressure plate which is designed to spread the resilient action of the rear portion over a large surface so that the tie and shirt are held securely together without wrinkling, catching, or tearing of the shirt or tie. I have further provided for a minimum number of parts which can be readily stamped from sheet stock and easily assembled.

Referring to the drawing, the novel tie holder 2|] includes a front portion 2| which may be of any desired shape and which may be ornamented in any suitable manner. The front portion 2| is preferably formed of elongated sheet stock to extend across the front of the tie, as shown in Fig. 1, and is reentrantly bent at one end to forma resilient loop 22 and a spring tongue 23 which extends in adjacent relation to the front portion 2| and preferably towards it, as shown in Fig. 2. Between the spring tongue 23 and the front portion 2l'is a pressure element 24 which is preferably in the form of a plate and urged towards resilient engagement with the rear of the front portion 2| by the pressure from the free end of the spring tongue 23. h

The pressure plate 24 may be of solid construction but is preferably stamped from sheet stock in the manner shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6. The pressure plate 24 is preferably of the same width as the front portion 2| and is of suflicient length to extend-substantially across the entire back of the front portion 2|, and is formed of-sheet stock which is turned at the edges to form upturned flanges 25 extending across the length of the pressure plate on each edge thereof. The front of the pressure plate is turned sharply upward, as at 26, and the upturned flanges from the front portion slope upwardly to form a substantially wide portion 21. The rear of the pressure plate is also turned upwardly, as at 21, but not as sharply as the front portion 26 and the flanges slope gradually upwardly to meet the upwardly sloped front flanges and to form a platform 29 and an abrupt abutment 30 where they join the wide portion 21 of the frontflanges.

On the platform 29 is a rectangular block 3| formed from the sheet stock, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The height of the block 3| and of the abutment 30 is substantially equal to the thickness of the front portion 2|.

In assembling the tie holder, the resilient rear tongue 23 is forced away from the front portion 2| and the pressure plate is slipped beneath it as shown in Fig. 2. A non-circular, preferably rectangular opening 32, near the end of the spring tongue 23, is allowed to slip over the correspondingly shaped block 3| as shown in Fig. 3, thus providing a loose connection; the pressure plate 24 will then be urged resiliently against the rear of the front portion 2| by the pressure of the spring tongue 23. Furthermore, the journalling of the rectangular block 3| in the rectangular opening 32 prevents swerving or sideways movement of the pressure plate when in use. The upwardly inclined. front flange on the pressure plate, form'- ing the wide portion 21, forms a line with the surface of the tongue 23, as shown in Fig. 2 so that 'in Fig. 7.

solid material, the form shown in Figs. '7 to 10 in-- clusive may be used. In this form the side flanges of the pressure plate 33 may be extended across the platform portion to form flanges 35- and 36 on each side of the block 31. With this construction, when the pressure plate is placed beneath the spring tongue 38,1the, spring tongue 38 nests between the sides of the flanges 35v and 3.6

and is hidden from view from the side, as shown This arrangement further tends to eliminate the possibility of the tie holders'catehing on the tie or the shirt.

A large surface is thus provided by the pres- .sure plate to grip the shirt and tie together, without creasing or indenting the tie or shirt in any manner. By using'a fairly heavy stock, the spring loop 22 and spring tongue 23 may be made fairly I stiff so that-a-heavy spring resilient action is obtained. Thiscan readily be done with the. present construction because the shape. of the pressure plate facilitates sliding of the tie holder, re-

gardless of the strength of the spring action,

' both on and off the tie and shirt. The above described construction-is very easy to manufacture and. can be readilyassembled withoutthe use of toolsor special skill.

Whilel have described aspecific constructional embodiment of my invention, any desired changes in. the sizeof the parts, in'the materials used for the parts, and in the shape and ornamentati'onv of the partsmaybe made to suit requirements for different tie holder designs without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a tie holder construction comprising a front member, a rear member integral with and resiliently urged towards said front member, and a pressure element between the two members, said pressure element comprising a pressure plate adapted.- to' be interposed between the front and rear members whereby said rear member resiliently urges said plate towards said front member, said pressure plate having a non-circular block,.said rear member having a non-circular opening adjacent the free end thereof, said block being journalled in said opening.

2. In a tie holder construction comprising a front member, a rear member integral with and resilientlyurged towards said front member, and

a pressure element between the two members,

said pressure element comprising a pressure plate adapted. to be interposed betweenthe front and rear members whereby said rear member resiliently urges said plate towards said front member, said pressure plate having an integral rectangular block, said rear member having a rectangular opening adjacent the free end thereof, said. block being journal-led in saidopening.

3. In a tie. holder construction comprising a front member, .a rear' member integral with and resiliently urged towards said front member, and a ALBERT W. LIN'DQUIST. 

